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we moved, went back up to the old railroad right-of-way towards the north and came to a -, the area that is proposed for a public access in this general location. And that concluded, basically concluded the field investigation of this particular application. Since the last meeting, we received a number of correspondences. First of all, after the nd September 22 meeting, we received two correspondences from Claudia Rohr. One was a letter addressed to the Planning Commission, attention to Chair Fred Galdones, and this basically asked several questions and asked for clarification on certain issues. The second was a letter, also dated September 25, addressed to Planning Commission, attention Chair Galdones, and basically requesting that Commissioner Kubota excuse herself of participation of review of this petition. We also received a letter from Lorraine Mendoza, who is the president of the Pepe`ekeo Community Association, dated October 15 th, requesting that the Commission continue this hearing to a later date. We also received a letter from Steven S.C. Lim, who is the representative for the Applicant, also requesting that the Commission, excuse me, requesting that Applicant, I mean the Commission continue this hearing held today. We finally received a letter from Commissioner Kubota, informing the Commission that she will recuse herself of participation on this matter. Are there any questions at this time? GALDONES:Norman, is there any particular order in which we need to address these letters? Should we address Mrs. -, Commissioner Kubota's letter of recusing herself, so she wants to be recused from participating in any discussion? Would that be the proper order? Okay. Mrs. Kubota, you want to address the letter, or you just would like to recuse yourself from this discussion at this moment in time? KUBOTA:I think in my memo to you, Mr. Chairman, I asked for time to respond to the concerns as expressed by the writer of the letter, and state my reasons, for the record, as to why I choose to recuse myself on this particular application. GALDONES:You may proceed. KUBOTA:Thank you. But before I go into the meat of this whole thing, Mr. Chair, with your permission, I'd like to ask for a point, another point of personal privilege. I have in the audience a member who, of my class as a fourth and fifth grader, there's Lennie Okano sitting there, and I am so pleasantly pleased to see a young lady, she has turned into, interested in, you know, affairs of this sort. And so we had a chance to visit earlier, and I encouraged her to become a member of the commission someday, and I guarantee you she'll do a good job. That's Lennie Okano, one of my favorite students from Kalaniana`ole School. So happy to see you here. 3